Hi! Here is a link to a photo I took through my scope… I hope it works; I am new to flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/109033426@N06/10916950865/ The story: I met two fellow birders as they

I would like help IDing this flycatcher seen today on my property in Valley Center.

Marsh Wren at the stick pond (8am) in the bushes growing in between the sticks (they have maroon stems and bud-type flowers). I also saw what I believe is one of the rescued Red-Tailed Hawks from

Hi Ryan, The video shows the bird slowly dipping its tail down without any movement of the wings indicating this is a Gray Flycatcher. The photos are nice but always tricky identifying Empids from one

The Blue-headed Vireo first seen and photographed by Jay K. on Saturday morning continues on Monday morning between 6:30 and 6:45 a.m. in the same tree in which Jay had it, which is the fruiting

For anyone interested, Gene sent me the earlier video snip of this red tailed hawk de-tangling operation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAw22cJ5yY4 This short video shows an earlier

In the late afternoon 17 Nov 2013 I found an adult tan-striped morph WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in the northeast corner of Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. It seemed to favor moving with the

Hi. I need help with a gull again. I'm thinking western or California, but it's a bit small with a short tail for a western and has an all dark bill for a California gull. It appears that the top

By the way, if anyone wants to see the merganser, I found her just to the north of the main boat dock area. I doubt she will stay there for long. Darlene Luckins SDSU area.

Dave Billings of Leucadia sent me the following email nice job dave steve brad leucadia It's back at the polo fields. I had a good look today, and it was gracious enough to be hanging out

Correction, the hooded merganser was seen just to the east of the boat docks and not the north. Also, the consensus on the gull is that it is a western gull. Darlene Luckins SDSU area

Several people were atDairy Mart Pond this morning looking for the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, but itwas not seen. Various people alsochecked the Stick Pond, the middle pond, the Sod Farm, and the

The Black-throated Green Warbler was seen this morning, 0815 and 0920 hours, at the Obelisk as previously described. I have a second hand report that the Scarlet Tanager was seen to the east of the

In addition to Gary's WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at FRNC, I had another one this morning--Monday--in the main 'canyon' on the Point Loma Nazarene College campus, in a small flock of Golden-crowned and

Tuesday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m. is our next SDFO meeting where we will screen a ground-breaking science film "Ordinary Extraordinary Junco" which explores diversity and evolution of all kinds of

Leslie Marples found a female Varied Thrush this morning at FRNC. It is in the NW section along the north fenceline loosely associating with a flock of juncos. Reporting for Leslie, Barbara

Hi birders, Late this morning (11/19), I briefly observed a booby in flight at the Del Mar Jetty on Camp Pendleton. It appeared to have taken off from the rocks near the end of the jetty when it then

The female Hooded Merganser reported yesterday by Darlene Luckins at Lake Murray was still present today. The continuing Horned Grebe and juvenile Glaucous-winged Gull were also present in the same

I found a single female-type White-winged Scoter off of the Otay River mouth or ~500 meters E of the South Bay Bio parking lot along the lower Silver Strand. When Robert Patton looked later in the day

On Tuesday the 19th, a female-type YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was present in the late afternoon at Collier Park and neighborhood in Ocean Beach. This is along Soto Street, which is just west of Nimitz.